++++++++++++++++This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

There is freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning. If there were not this freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning, then escape from that which is birth, becoming, making, conditioning, would not be known here. -- Ud 80

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

Happy birthday John Mclaughlin. Back in the 70's I was reading The Upanishads and The Bhagavad Gita, and wondering about John and Carlos - and Shri Chinmoy. John always seemed so wholesome and radiant Some of his music was certainly awesome.

He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.' (Jhana Sutta - Thanissaro Bhikkhu translation)

Wonderful. I hope that you don't mind my posting this in response, Mr. Man. Last year, I had the opportunity to try Sacred Harp singing, and was floored by the experience. I have no musical training, and was slow to grasp the notation. But the sound produced is amazingly cathartic. Everyone should try it

This offering maybe right, or wrong, but it is one, the other, both, or neither!Blog,-Some Suttas Translated,Ajahn Chah."Others will misconstrue reality due to their personal perspectives, doggedly holding onto and not easily discarding them; We shall not misconstrue reality due to our own personal perspectives, nor doggedly holding onto them, but will discard them easily. This effacement shall be done."